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by drunkenness. She assumes nothing but that which no man will
deny, namely that all men wish to be happy. She has no purpose
to answer by despotic dogmatizing. Her mission is to invite to a
sober reckoning of good & evil. She has no interest in this or
that course of action – in one result or another, – but in so far
as there is to be something of happiness abstracted from the
whole. All that she proposes is to put a bridle upon precipitancy
to prevent rashness from taking irrevocable steps – and entering
upon foolish bargains. She has no quarrel with any species of
pleasure which does not alignassociate itself to the with a more than
counterbalancing portion of pain. In a word, she ministers to
selfishness, – & like a wise & active steward makes the
most of every man's rent roll of felicity.

But she is not blind nor thoughtless. She knows that the present
will soon be the past – & that the opinions of this hour will
be modified by the experience of the next. Hence she desires
that the important element of that which is to be at all may not
be left out of the calculation in intimating of that which is. The teaching is. Weigh
every thing, the – weigh every thing well that belongs to the bargain. Make the
most of what is given you to enjoy now, – but if suffering is
behind. – if enjoyments greater than those you are grasping
are to be surrendered as the payment for them – where is your
prudence? If as a when for the purchase of the enjoyment you
covet – you inflict pain upon others greater than your enjoyment
where is your benevolence? And if again from the infliction of that
pain upon others, they retaliate on you with interest – or abstract from your
enjoyments a greater sum than that of which you deprived them –
where again is your prudence?

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	239	Info in main headings field
Image	240	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f93
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5455
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